The video game auteur himself, Hideo Kojima, lays bear his mind in a new series of social media posts aptly coined “Hideo’s Musings.” Every day, the Death Stranding director will answer one question, providing with it (in Kojima fashion) a long-winded answer detailing much about the inner cogs working triple-time in Kojima’s mind. These answers are then translated into English and posted on the official Kojima Productions Twitter, ranging in categories from Death Stranding narrative design to the director’s employment history.
If ever a fan sought to know or understand the mind of this legendary creator, now is the best time, even if Kojima himself considers it potentially “an absurd project.”
Above, readers can find the very first question asked of Kojima, which focuses on which current creators and actors are of main importance to him. Following that up on the next day was a Death Stranding-specific question, shown below, which mainly asks the gaming director how he imbued multiple genres and impactful emotions into one coherent narrative.
The third question asks the gaming director to look back, well beyond his directorial legacy, to the start of his career. Before designing remarkable digital worlds and being on the jury of Venice International’s Film Festival, Kojima was a wedding ceremony videographer following his high school graduation.
He even took up part-time gardening, which he says taught him “not only how to plant, but also how to design a garden, where to put a bamboo fence, how to organize rocks…things you would never know unless you worked this kind of job.”
Although Kojima may not consider himself a prophet, his fans still certainly do to some extent. These musings, which have even caught the eye of Nibellion and Geoff Keighley, are proof of this, with questions ranging far and wide, attempting to pry open a mind as complicated as a five-dimensional Rubik’s cube. Even with these beautiful daily musings, it’s doubtful the mind of this creator will ever thoroughly be understood.
But, maybe that’s for the better.
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